0.7.0

Version 0.7 (2018-04-03)

Highlights

• Changed license from MIT to BSD 3-clause (to match MetPy and other Unidata projects)
• Added client for downloading data from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) (thanks to @WEP11)
• Added client for downloading upper air data from Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) Version 2 (thanks to @DanielWatkins)
• Added client for accessing upper air data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet (IEM)
• Improved metadata available in upper air data
• Fixed a variety of minor bugs in catalog parsing

Contributors

@DanielWatkins, @pjpokran, @WEP11, @lesserwhirls, @jrleeman, and @dopplershift contributed code to this release.

Issues Closed

• Issue 205 - IAState No Data Handling (PR 207)
• Issue 203 - Add unit helper for pandas data frames
• Issue 202 - Add example of pulling out data with unit from soundings (PR 210)
• Issue 192 - no attribute 'LazilyIndexedArray'
• Issue 189 - Add time to upper air data (PR 206)
• Issue 179 - Failure to get access urls (PR 188)
• Issue 176 - Add region kwarg to documentation for upper air data requests (PR 199)
• Issue 175 - License change (PR 198)
• Issue 172 - Siphon default regex in siphon/catalog.py fails for days 30/31
• Issue 156 - Add IEM Upper Air Archive (PR 193)

In this release 10 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

• PR 211 - Fix documentation build
• PR 210 - Add attaching units to upper air example (202)
• PR 209 - Cleanup doc config
• PR 208 - BUG: Fix check for latest on CompoundService
• PR 207 - Upper air no data available testing (205)
• PR 206 - Sounding metadata (189)
• PR 201 - MNT: Improve logging set up
• PR 200 - Doc enhancements (181)
• PR 199 - UW sounding regions (176)
• PR 198 - Update LICENSE and general maintenance (175)
• PR 196 - BUG: Not all ACIS tests were using VCR
• PR 195 - MNT: Remove calls to dict.keys()
• PR 194 - MNT: Fix with xarray 0.10.2 (Fixes #192)
• PR 193 - Port Iowa State Soundings from MetPy (156)
• PR 191 - Modify state borders for Cartopy 0.16
• PR 188 - BUG: Fix embedded metadata elements (179)
• PR 187 - BUG: Fix error path in HTTPEndPoint
• PR 183 - Fix build
• PR 177 - Adds acis.py for ACIS Web Services functionality
• PR 173 - Change line 44 to include 0123 for day instead of 012
• PR 171 - MNT: Fix xarray support with xarray 0.10

In this release 21 pull requests were closed.

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